Improvement in portable fountains



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UNITED SrA'rEs PATENT OFFIoE. A

WILLIAM A. PUNGS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE FOUNTAINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,844, dated August4, 1874; application filed June 17. 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. PUNGS, of Detroit, in the county of Wayneand State of Michigan, have invented an Improved Portable Fountain, ofwhich the following is a specification The nature of my inventionrelates to an improvement in that class of portable fountains used forirrigating lawns which are supplied with water through a flexible hose,and are provided with hollow perforated arms for distributing the wateras spray, in the revolution of the arms caused by the reaction of thewater. The object of my invention is to double the delivery capacity ofthe fountain, and at the same time to produce a very beautiful eflect bythe addition of a second rotary collar having a set of arms which rotatein the opposite direction of the first set.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the upper part of the head. Fig. 2 isa vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view ofthe stem.

In the drawing, A represents a hollow stem adapted to screw on the topof a portable fountain-pipe, and having an internal bore, a, closed atthe top by a cup, B, having a perforated rose-top, for discharging anupward spray of water. The exterior of the stem is The outer ends of thehollow arms are closed, and they are perforated on one side withapertures d. The reaction of the water issuing from said aperturescauses the collar and its arms. to rotate and spray the jets over anarea greater than the diameter of the arms in pairs. The water issuesfrom the bore a, through the openings 0, into the annular grooveb. Abovethe tapered surface 0 there is another, similar but smaller, one indiameter, 6, on which is sleeved a collar, C, carrying hollow radialarms D, but which are perforated on the opposite side from theperforations in the arms D, so that the issuing jets will rotate theircollar in the opposite direction from that imparted to the lower set ofarms. There is an annular groove, b in the surface 0, from the bottom ofwhich several openings are tapped into the bore a.

I do not claim the invention of a single collar rotatingwith its hollowarms upon a bear ing at the top of a portable fountain-pipe, as such isnot new; but

What I do claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The hollow stem A having two tapered surfaces, 0 e, annular grooves b b,openings 0 0 into its bore a, and the collars O O carrying the hollowarms D D, perforated in opposite directions, in the manner and for thepurpose set forth.

WILLIAM A. PUNGS.

Witnesses:

H. F. EBERTS, H. S. SPRAGUE.

